PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 165, 12 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

I Mr. If. A. Young, Stipendiary Magistrate ut Queenstown, has received notice from his Department to remove to Gore. Mr. F. Black, consulting engineer, will arrive in town to-night and confer with the Borough Council re the tramways. The V. S. Wilding, who sdiaped so well at the Auckland .tennis tournament, is n younger brother of the world's champion player. A private cablegram received in Dunedin announces the death at Home of ! Mr. George Cowie, at one time manager in Dimedin of the Colonial Bank. An Adelaide cablegram reports the death of McGorrey, one of the members of the McDonall and Stuart's party which Crst crossed Australia in 1858-02. Mr. Horatio Everett, of lUwaka. chairman of the Waimea. County Council, will contest the Motueku seat at the next general election in the Government interests. | Mr. A, h. Cluippell, late of the Daily | News' literary staff, has been appointed I sports editor of the new Christ church I daily, The Sun, and left for the south j on Saturday. ; Mr. James Smith, a former licensee I of the Imperial ILptel and lata a member of the firm of Hawkins and Smith, is taking over the United Service Ho--1 tel, Chvistchureh. | The Egmont County Council, at it* j meeting on Friday, appointed Cr. ('. 11. Hirst to the vacancy on the Opunako Harbor Hoard, caused bv the resignation of Mr M, ,1. MacEeynolds. Messrs George and Harry Pearee, of N]ew Plymouth, leave this morning on a holiday. They intend doing the round trip from the Bluff, visiting Sydney and Melbourne, and returning via Auckland. A cable message from London announces the death of Viscount Cross, who, us Mr. Hicluud Assheton Cross, was Home Secretary from 1874 to 1881) and from 1885 to 1880, ami was Secretary for India from 1880 to 18(10. An old and respected resident of this district passed away at YVanganui on Saturday, in the person ef Mrs. Coad, the widow of Air. Steuben Coad, who resided for some years at Mangorei. The funeral takes place this afternoon at j Te Henui cemetery. Writes a New Zealand correspondent from London:—Miss Jlodna Buckman,

the New Zealand singer who has been unusually successful since she came over to England, is ill, and was unable to sing at the Hallo concert at Manchester, or the Phillips concert at Bi'fast, for which she had been engaged last week.

A highly-respected Wairarapa resident, Mr. Joseph Henry Wakelin, of Carterton, has passed away, after four months of illness, at the age of 42 veal's. His father was the late Mr. E. L. Wakelin, one of the oldest settlers in the district, and the founder of a ftourmill that has been a landmark »f Carterton for a great many years.

A "general post" among the tfficers of the Salvation Army in New Zealand is due on February 15. Chaages affecting all ranks will take place practically right throughout the Dominion, anil fully two-thirds of the Army's Held officers will undergo tsansfur. Cai the average, an officer remains about two years at one station, and so biennially a re-adjustment of commands on a largo scale is made. The death is annoiineed in a cable message from London af the Karl of Cawdor at the age of 4Jt. The Karl who succeeded his father in 101], <im not take any part in politics beyong unsuccessfully contesting the Pembrokeshire seat in 1905. It was liis father, the third earl, who wan First Lord of the Admiralty in Mr. Balfour's last Ministry. The heir to the earldom, Viscount Emblyn, is a lad of thirteen. Mr. E. F. Blundcll, manager of the New Plymouth Urauch of the Bank of New Zealand, met with a painful accident, late on Saturday afternoon through his trap-horse stumbling and throwing him out of the vehicle, when comiu-i out of Mr M. Jonc;' stables, in Devon sVreet lie sprained both bis wrists ami sustained some bruises. On enquiry hist night, is was learnt that Mr. Blundcll was progressing satisfactorily.

Five officers have jmt arrived in Now Zealand b.v the Kotoriw—niimoly, Cantatas. A. C. Robinson and N. C. l'liimilton and Lieutenants A. H. Wright and IT. M. Towards on loan from the Imperial Army, and Lieutenant A. If Finer who has been at Home for training 01 the officers on loan the three first mentioned are from the Army Sortie,. Corps and the fourth, who is f rom the Loyal Lngineers, will work under the Director of Ordnance.